Attachment for hot-air registers



Dec. 2, 1924.

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IsAA B. ULLoM, or WASHINGTON, rENNsYLVANL/i.

ATTACHMENT Fori HOT-AIR. REGIsTERs.

Application filed Aprll 1, 1924. Serial No. 703,566.

To all whom t may concern: parallel flanges 12 between which is held Be it known that I, Isaac B. ULLoM, a strip 13 of felt, asbestos, or like material. 55

a citizen of the United States of America, At the top of the frame the covering 11 and a resident of lVasliington, in the county has transverse cut-outs. 14 which receive of lVasliington and State of Pennsylvania, tongues 15 on a curtain-holding strip 16,

have invented a new and Improved Attaclisaid tongues being bent about the frame ment for Hot-Air Registers, of-wliicli the at said eut-outs 14. The strip 16 at the 60 following is a description. outer free edge thereof has rearwardly di- My invention relates to an attachment rected teeth 17 to engage the curtain. 10 to be applied to a hot-air register in a man- A bracket 18 is employed generally of ner to afford support for a dust-collecting inverted U-sliape and presents oblique menicurtain to prevent smoke and dust from bers, the lower ends of which terminate in 55 mai-ring walls adjacent to the register. vertical members received .in sockets 2O The general object of my invention is to formed on clips 19 applied to thestandards provide a curtain-supporting attachment of the frame 10 as clearly shown in Figure and a detachable curtain therefor, the at- 1. The top cross bar 21 of the bracket 18 tacliment to be so formed as to be readily has applied thereto a clip or covering strip`70 applied to the liot-air register to exclude Q2 of sheet metal which is formed with a dust in the joint between the register and toothed flange 23 directed forwardly for the supporting wall. engaging a curtain.

A more specific object ofthe invention is A curtain 24 is formed with a front, sides, to .provide an attachment for the indicated and a top, the bottom and rear; of the cur- 75 purpose reflecting practical considerations tain being open. The rear edge of the with respect to simplicity and facility with top of the curtain 24 is engaged with 25 which the attachment may be eiiiplaced. the teeth 17 as shown in Figure 3, while The nature of the invention and its disthe teeth 28 engage the curtain at the angle tinguisliiiig features and advantages will formed by the front and top of the curtain. 80 clearly appear as the description proceeds. The curtain-holding frame and its appui'- Reference is to be had to the accompany tenances are emplaced behind a. register A 30 ing drawings forming a part of this speciby removing the usual screws C which are fication, it being understood that the drawgenerally employed to affix a register to the ings are merely illustrative of one example wall B. The frame 10 with its covering 11 85 ofthe invention. is then positioned against the wall at the Figure 1 is a perspective view of a curback of the register A so that the strip 13 tain and a curtain-support embodying my forms a closure at the top and sides of the invention; wall opening D. The bracket 18 supports Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1 but the curtain at tlie front while the strip 1G 90 with the curtain omitted; supports the curtain at the back. Said cur- Figure 3 is a transverse vertical section tain 24 prevents the rising of dust within with the curtain and curtain support in a the room and the strip 13 prevents dust enplane indicated lby the line 33, Figure 1; tering at the top and sides between the reg- Figure 4 is a fragmentary front elevation ister A and the wall B. Thus, the wall is 95 of the curtain and support as applied to the protected from becoming soiled or discolregister; ored by any smoke or dust escaping through Figure 5 is a detail in cross section on the register A.

the line 5 5, Figure 4. I would state in conclusion that while the In carrying out my invention in accordillustrated example constitutes a practical ance with the illustrated example, a frame embodiment of my invention, I do not limit 10 is provided, presenting legs or standmyself strictly to the exact details herein 50 ards and ai top cross bar uniting the standillustrated, since, manifestly, the same can ards. The standards or legs, as well as the be considerably varied without departure top cross bar of the frame have applied from the spirit of the invention as defined thereto a metal covering 11 terminating in in the appended claim.

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Having thus described my invention, l claim:

An attachment for hot-air registers i11- cluding a frame having spaced sides and a top cross bar in approxiinatel)7 the plane of the sides and adapted t0 be emplaced at the back of a hot-air register, Sheet metal covering on said frame at tlie sides and top` `Said covering at the top of the frame having! rearwardly7 directed cnrtaiirengaging teethj l0 and additional curtain-supporting means 0n said frame forward of Said top bar und its curtain-Snpporting teeth.

ISAAC B. LLOM. 

